Deadlines are looming for the Great Ideas Conference so I need to run some ideas by you. Striving to be paperless, conference organizers require that handouts be digital, but even so we are limited to ten pages. My eyes are crossing because I am so close to this. Need help picking the right ten, okay, nine as one is the template cover page.
Fellow Idea Lab alchemist Cheryl Kiser and I can also use your feedback on the session's design. The subject is social responsibility. The challenge is that it's at 9:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning, running opposite the fabulous Cooking Up Leadership session that Rhea Blanken is doing. And, if that's not enough, we are on the heels of Saturday's opening keynote by Dan Roam, author of The Back of the Napkin, raising the standard for all presentations that follow.
So, here's the basic plan. Start with a conversation on social responsibility, using the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship's developmental framework to map some of their well known company members' position on the chart.
Next, invite participants to peg other companies, like Wal-Mart and Target, and member companies on the continuum. This leads into participants' self-assessment of their associations' development stage and a discussion, parsing the reasons why. Then, a group-sourced strategy session, identifying ways to move forward, ending with a fun way to keep the conversation going beyond the session.
Below are links to the handouts: the charts and a four-page excerpt of my manifesto on Shared Responsibility, written for the forthcoming Journal of Association Leadership. One of the pages is a start at a napkin-style presentation and a script outline. I know, I know--it needs to be hand-drawn in real time, but this is just a place to start. Maybe after Great Ideas, we can turn it into a napkin video.
Take a look. All ideas are welcome!
